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President Cyril Ramphosa announced significant changes to his Cabinet on Monday.
He also appointed Mpumalanga Premier and ANC deputy president David "DD" Mabuza as deputy president of the country. Mabuza will be sworn in as an MP on Tuesday.

The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) is hoping to bring the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on board in the new year to improve the committee's work in holding state entities to account.

Gambian President Adama Barrow has announced a moratorium on the death penalty as the West African country rebuilds its international standing following the removal last year of its long-time authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh, Reuters reported Monday.

Thousands of Zimbabweans gathered Tuesday to bid a final farewell to opposition veteran Morgan Tsvangirai who was one of Africa's most globally admired politicians and lived to see the fall of his political nemesis Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe has reportedly told the visiting African Union commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat that he stepped down from his post for the sake of "peace and development" following a military intervention in November.

At least 17 people are dead after a 19-year-old man opened fire at a high school campus in Parkland, Florida.
The suspect was Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the school who had been expelled. He escaped with fleeing students but is now in police custody.

A door of a Nigerian Dana Air plane, that was taxing down the runway after landing from a flight from Lagos to Abuja, fell off with the airline blaming a passenger, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported on Friday.

Speaker Baleka Mbete has confirmed the new president will be sworn in on Thursday at 2pm after the resignation of former president Jacob Zuma.
It is expected that ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa will be sworn in as the head of state.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai died on Wednesday, according to party officials.
The leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had been in a critical condition in a South African hospital.

Police swooped the on an alleged intricate drug lab operating from a home in the heart of Sandton this morning.
About 10 police vehicles lined outside the house while forensics officers combed the scene.

President Jacob Zuma has resigned as president of South Africa on Wednesday night.
Statement of the president of the Republic of South Africa, JG Zuma on the decision of the African National Congress to recall him